Publications

Books

Monographs

Mehdi Berriah, La bataille de ʿAyn Jālūt (658/1260), Cairo, Ifao, (under review)

Mehdi Berriah, The Mamluk Art of War (1250-1375): Strategies and Tactics, engl. transl. Anna Galietti, Leiden, Brill, 2025 (forthcoming)

Mehdi Berriah, L’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks (1250-1375) : stratégies et tactiques , Brill (Series Islamic History and Civilization, volume 214), Leiden/Boston, 2024, 744 p + XXVII

Mehdi Berriah, Les Mamelouks : les cavaliers de l’Islam. Études sur l’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks, Paris, Héritage, 2021, 217 p.

Collective volumes

Mehdi Berriah & Hassan Bouali, Discours et imaginaires eschatologiques de l’islam (VII-XXI siècle), De Gruyter (under review)

Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post (eds.), Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, KU Leuven University Press, 2025 (forthcoming)

Mehdi Berriah et Abbès Zouache (éd.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Le Caire, 2025, 236 p.

Mehdi Berriah & Clément Onimus (eds.), Annales Islamologiques 56, special issue : Ǧihād et fitna : penser et concevoir la guerre dans le Mašriq médiéval, Ifao, Cairo, 2023, 328 p.

Mehdi Berriah & Mohamad El-Merheb (eds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Brill, Leiden, 2021, 260 p.

Journal articles

(peer-reviewed)

“The Merits and Superiority of Arabs and the Arabic Language in Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328): Ethnic-Religious Discourse and Political Agenda”, (under review)

“An Important and Neglected Epistle by Ibn Taymiyya on Jihad: Qāʿida fī al-inġimās fi al-ʿaduww wa hal yūbāḥ (Rule about Plunging into the Enemy, is this Permitted?)”, Arabica, (accepted after peer-review)

“Ambiguity and Confusion around the Celebration of the Mawlid. On Ibn Taymiyya’s Position and its Use in Contemporary Religious Debates”, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée(REMMM), 155, 2024), 87-104. [open access DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/11z1f]

“Some New Insights regarding Mamluk Siege Artillery”, Annales islamologiques, 56, 2023, 139-159. [open access DOI: 10.4000/anisl.11546]

With Clément Onimus, “Introduction : Ǧihād et fitna, entre pratique du conflit et discours sur la guerre”,Annales Islamologiques 56, 2023, 3-11. [open access DOI: 10.4000/anisl.10904]

With Maxime Petitjean, “La théorie militaire sassanide : regards croisés”, Antiquité Tardive. Revue Internationale d’Histoire et d’Archéologie (IVe-VIIIe siècle) 30, 2022, 181-199.
[DOI 10.1484/J.AT.5.132660]

“ʿAyn Ǧālūt (658/1260): Re-evaluating of a So-Called Decisive Battle”, Annales islamologiques 55, Ifao, 2021, 63-88. [open access DOI: 10.4000/anisl.9559]

“Ibn Taymiyya’s Conception of Jihad: Corpus, General Aspects, and Research Perspectives”, Teosofi12, no. 1, 2022, 43-70. [open access DOI 10.15642/teosofi.2022.12.1.43-70]

“Ibn Taymiyya’s Methodology regarding his Sources: Reading, Selection and Use. Preliminary Study and Perspectives”, Filologie medievali e moderne. Serie orientale, 26/5 (Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond), Elise Franssen (éd.), Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice, 2022, 45-81. [open access DOI: 10.30687/978-88-6969-560-5/006]

“The Mamluk Sultanate and the Mamluks seen by Ibn Taymiyya: between Praise and Criticism”, Arabian Humanities 14, 2020 [open access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.6491]

“Représentations, sunnanisation et sacralisation de la furūsiyya à l’époque mamelouke (XIIIe-XVIe siècle)”, Bulletin d’études orientales 67, 2020, 229-246. [open access DOI : 10.4000/beo.7761]

“Un aspect de l’art de la guerre de l’armée mamelouke : la pratique de la “fausse ouverture” à la bataille de Šaqḥab (702/1303)”, Arabica 65/4, 2018, 431-469. [DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341499]

“Le cheval arabe chez les Mamelouks, entre pragmatisme, symboles et représentations”, Arabian Humanities 8, 2017 [open access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.3398]

Book chapters

- “Minor Jihad Tradition in Ibn ʿArabī: Preliminary Data and Analysis”, in Mehdi Berriah & Aiyub Palmer (éd.), Tasawwuf and Traditionalism in Islam, Leiden, Brill (under evaluation)
- “Jihad as a Tool for Sanctifying and Constructing the Image of Qutuz as a Mujāhid Sultan”, in Javier Albarràn (ed.), Sanctity and War in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review)
- “The Mongols as Eschatological Actors and Heralds in Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328)”, in Mehdi Berriah & Hassan Bouali (eds.), Discours et imaginaires eschatologiques de l’islam (VII-XXI siècle), De Gruyter (under evaluation)
- With Arjan Post, “Ibn Taymiyya’s Corpus and Thought: New Approach and Research Perspectives”, in Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post (eds.), Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, KU Leuven University Press, Leuven (forthcoming)
- “Jins and Exorcism in Ibn Taymiyya” in Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post (eds.), Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, KU Leuven University Press, Leuven (forthcoming).
- “Next Mamluk Target: Ibn Taymiyya on Cyprus”, in Commerce and Crusade: The Mamluk Empire and Cyprus in a Euro-Mediterranean Perspective, Georg Christ (ed.), Peeters, Leuven (forthcoming).
- “Ziyārat al-qubūr: bidʿa or not? A Case of Divergence and Theological Debate in the Mamluk Period”, in The Sacred in Mamluk Society, Tetsuya Ohtoshi & Alex Mallett (eds.), Brill, Leiden (forthcoming)
- “The Opposition between ʿUlamā’ and Mamluk Sultans about the Thorny Issue of Ǧihād Financing: a Case Study of Islamic Law”, in Mehdi Berriah and Abbès Zouache (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Cairo, 2025, p. 189-220.
- “The Impact of Geographical, Climatic and Meteorological Features of Syria on the Mamluk-Ilkhanid Mongol Conflict”, in Mehdi Berriah and Abbès Zouache (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Cairo, 2025, p. 171-188.
- With Abbès Zouache, “Studying Medieval Jihad as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Corpus, Holistic Approach, Temporalities and Contextualization”, in Mehdi Berriah and Abbès Zouache (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Cairo, 2025, p. 1-17.
- “Introduction”, dans Mehdi Berriah (éd.), Les Mamelouks : les cavaliers de l’Islam. Études sur l’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks, Paris, Héritage, 2022, 7-16.
- “La construction de l’image du sultan muǧāhid chez les Mamelouks”, dans Mehdi Berriah (éd.), Les Mamelouks : les cavaliers de l’Islam. Études sur l’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks, Paris, Héritage, 2022, 176-215.
- “Les réseaux de forteresses mamlukes en Syrie du Nord”, in Atlas des mondes médiévaux musulmans, Sylvie Denoix & Hélène Renel (eds.), Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2022, 298-299. [ISBN : 9782271139498]
https://www.academia.edu/75141539/_Les_r%C3%A9seaux_de_forteresses_mamlukes_en_Syrie_du_Nord_in_Atlas_des_mondes_m%C3%A9di%C3%A9vaux_musulmans_Sylvie_Denoix_et_H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Renel_eds_Paris_CNRS_Editions_2022_p_298_299
- “La fin des États latins”, in Atlas des mondes médiévaux musulmans, Sylvie Denoix & Hélène Renel (eds.), Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2022, 296-297. [ISBN : 9782271139498]
https://www.academia.edu/75142250/_La_fin_des_Etats_latins_in_Atlas_des_mondes_m%C3%A9di%C3%A9vaux_musulmans_Sylvie_Denoix_et_H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Renel_eds_Paris_CNRS_Editions_2022_p_296_297
- “Mobility and Versatility of the ʿulamaʾ in the Mamluk Period: the Case of Ibn Taymiyya”, in Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Mehdi Berriah & Mohamad El-Merheb (eds.), Brill, Leiden, 2021, 98-130. [DOI: 1163/9789004467637_007]
- With Mohamad El Merheb, “Professional Mobility as a Defining Characteristic of Pre-Modern Islamic Civilisation”, in Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Mehdi Berriah & Mohamad El Merheb (eds.), Brill, Leiden, 2021, 1-11.[DOI: 1163/9789004467637_002]

Workshop/conference proceedings

“Combattre par la plume, le prêche et l’épée : les représentations du rôle des ulémas dans l’effort du jihad mamelouk (moitié vii^e/xiii^e — début ix^e/xiv^e siècles)”, in Sylvie Denoix & Salam Diab-Duranton (eds.), Représentations et symbolique de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe, Ifao, Cairo, 2024, 251-276. [ISBN 9782724710007]

“La conduite de la guerre de l’armée mamelouke face aux Mongols (XIII^e-XIV^e siècles)”, Actes du 16^e colloque international du département des sciences historiques de l’université de Laval, 17-19 février 2016, Presses de l’université de Laval, Québec, 2017, 131-154. https://www.academia.edu/31286291/_La_conduite_de_la_guerre_de_l_arm%C3%A9e_mamelouke_face_aux_Mongols_XIIIe_XIVe_si%C3%A8cle_Actes_du_16e_colloque_international_du_d%C3%A9partement_des_sciences_historiques_de_l_universit%C3%A9_de_Laval_17_19_f%C3%A9vrier_2016_Presses_de_l_Universit%C3%A9_de_Laval_Qu%C3%A9bec_2017_p_131_154

Books Review

- “Mohamad El-Merheb, Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate, Édimbourg, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 224 p.”, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques [online], 39, 2025 [https://journals.openedition.org/bcai/9164]
- “Olivier Hanne, Histoire du djihad : des origines de l’islam à Daech, Paris, Tallandier, 2024, 512 p.”,Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques [online], 39, 2025 [https://journals.openedition.org/bcai/9704]
- “Chauki Lazhar, Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function, London/New-York, Routledge, 2023, 352 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques [online], 38, 2024.
- “Mustafa Banister, The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261‒ Out of the Shadows, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2021, 494 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, 37 [https://doi.org/10.4000/bcai.1416]
- “Clément Onimus, Les maîtres du jeu. Pouvoir et violence politique à l’aube du sultanat mamlouk circassien (784-815/1382-1412), Éditions de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2019, 536 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 36, 2022, [online DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/bcai.1036]
- “Mathieu Eychenne, Stéphane Pradines & Abbès Zouache (dir.), Guerre et paix dans le Proche-Orient médiéval (x^e-xv^esiècle), Ifao/Ifpo, 2019, 574 p.”, Revue des mondes musulmans et de de la Méditerranée 149, 2021 [online https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/15003]
- “William Granara, Narrating Muslim Sicily. War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World, London, I. B. Tauris (Early and Medieval Islamic World), 2019, 240 p.”, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35, 2021[online https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/35/30/]
- “Giovanna Calasso & Guiliano Lancioni, Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb. Territories, People, Identities, Leyden, Brill, 2017, 450 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35, 2021 [online https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/35/25/]
- “Jean-François Breton et François Villeneuve, Préface Mounir Arbach,
  La guerre en Arabie antique. Actes des XXIIe Rencontres Sabéennes, Paris, Geuthner, 2019”, Arabian Humanities 14, 2020 [online https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.6246]
- “David Nicolle, Mamluk ‘Askari, Oxford/New-York, Osprey, 2014”, Revue historique des armées 284 – September 2016, Service historique de la Défense, p. 136-137 [https://www.academia.edu/31635573/David_Nicolle_Mamluk_Askari_1250_1517_Osprey_New_York_Londres_2014_64_p]
- “Reuven Amitaï, Holy War and Rapprochement. Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335), Turnhout, Brepols, (Miroir de l’Orient musulman, 4), 2013”, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée 142, [online: https://remmm.revues.org/9399], 2017.
- “Abbès Zouache & Mathieu Eychenne (dir.), La guerre dans le Proche-Orient médiéval (Xe-XVe s.). État de la question, lieux communs, nouvelles approches, Ifao/Ifpo, Le Caire, 2015”, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 30 [online : http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/30/29/], 2016.